Category Archives: Music

The Invisible Dog Gallery

By hugh | Published: July 8, 2010

I went to a CD release party for the guitar quartet called Dither a few weeks ago. Dither is emulating the Bang on a Can mission by producing casual concerts of new music in unique settings. Indeed, they are the group that graced the program cover for the recent Bang on a Can Marathon. The [...]

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Twin Guns

By hugh | Published: July 5, 2010

I saw Twin Guns last week at Don Pedro. Grainy rock n roll black and white! I hope you had a good Independence Day. I saw the fireworks with Mormon Tabernacle Choir accompaniment. I hope some day we’ll watch them with Abyssinian Baptist Church Choir accompaniment.

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Otto’s Monkeys

By hugh | Published: May 13, 2010

I like it when people will let you take pictures of their monkeys. (This should have been a separate post.) This is a still from It Might Get Loud and shows Blind Gary Davis. Why Teh Egde was in this film, just shoot me.

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Teenage Wasteland

By hugh | Published: March 17, 2010

I’m not sure how I didn’t get around to seeing Over the Edge until now. (Holy crap, the whole movie is posted on Youtube in 10 parts!) I was totally in this movie’s target demographic at the time it was made. My family Christmas card in 1977 shows me wearing a Yes belt buckle just [...]

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The Winter Trees Gallery

By hugh | Published: March 12, 2010

I’ve always liked trees. I remember freaking out a little bit as a kid when Smokey the Bear told me trees can’t run from forest fires. Later it occurred to me that trees are the nerve endings of the planet. Leafless trees in the winter have as much character to me as they do with [...]

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Blurboxer at Think Café

By hugh | Published: March 4, 2010

Liveblogging from Think Café near NYU. Blurboxer is sitar and upright bass. I think (ha) this is their first gig and it works great as coffee and soup music. The clean improvisation pieces sound wonderful but the electronic effects sound overmodulated. Yet again, I blame the nonexistent sound guy. Update: I was informed the speakers [...]

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February Live Music Reviews

By hugh | Published: February 28, 2010

I saw a number of friends’ bands over the last couple of weeks and thought I’d give them all reviews and plugs. Spanglish Fly, Feb 19, Rose, Brooklyn — I’ve known the leader of Spanglish Fly, trumpeter Jonathan Goldman, for about eight years as he played on the corporate softball team I coached. He led [...]

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More Great Uptown Music

By hugh | Published: February 16, 2010

I’ve been spending more evenings at the Manhattan School of Music. I can’t say enough great things about this institution. They have a whole other level of performance instruction Juilliard doesn’t touch!

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Free Concerts in Morningside Heights

By hugh | Published: December 8, 2009

‘Tis the season! I just got back from a concert by TACTUS at the Manhattan School of Music at Broadway and 122nd. That’s the new music group. It’s the end of the semester and MSM is putting on a string of great free concerts and recitals almost every night through December 19th so check the [...]

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Buy Some CDs!

By hugh | Published: November 8, 2009

I’m selling a lot of my CDs over at Amazon. Check em out if you want some new music! Most are pretty cheap and I’ll be listing about 200 more very soon. Thanks.

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Fall Colors

By hugh | Published: October 15, 2009

I really like this photo. Even though the composition is completely split in half, both halves are satisfying and normally, you’d see the top half with a sunset over it. Hmmm. I got booked to DJ a party at SiP for a bunch of jazz musicians this Saturday night. DJing for musicians is sort of [...]

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I Got A Rock

By hugh | Published: October 8, 2009

This flagpole should be about 20 feet higher unless it’s really a lightning rod. I was looking at other WordPress themes so watch out! We could have a new look pretty soon although I’m fond of the water. I might just figure out the coding tricks and incorporate it. Contortionists are from Mars: Rockers are [...]

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